Revealed as "The Mother" in CBS's "How I Met Your Mother"

Nominated for her first Tony for Best Actress in a Musical for "Once"

Cast as "The Girl" in the Broadway musical, "Once"

First on-screen gig on HBO's "The Sopranos"

"There were, like, 30 kids in acting class; half of them weren’t even theater majors. I just was really itching to get out and do stuff, and I think I also had done really poor research. Like, I didn’t know there was a place like Juilliard. I think that’s what I thought [NYU was like] — you just do acting all day. This was like, you take hard classes, in subjects I wasn’t prepared for — which I actually wish I paid more attention to." - from Buzzfeed.com, Aug 30, 2013

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Learned to play the bass for her role as "The Mother" in "How I Met Your Mother"